The Aging Society Index project, approved by The John A. Hartford Foundation’s Board of Trustees in 2015, is working to develop an evidence-based composite measure, or ‘index,’ that describes the capacity of countries to successfully adapt to the world’s aging population.

The index builds on the prior work of a number of prominent interdisciplinary scholars. It will serve both as a guide to the implementation of policies and a tool by which stakeholders can assess their effectiveness over time and across countries.